Anecdotally, this approach has been replicated by go. The stdlib in go is surprisingly complete. I’ve seen several go developers cite this as an advantage, being able to write many apps without adding dependencies from external to the language runtime.

I definitely think they’re onto something. Dependencies are a hard problem to solve.

Modern build tools like gradle work great at resolving deps, until they don’t and at that point we’re in for a world of shock at just how complex dependency resolution can be in large projects.